Method and apparatus for encoding and decoding high frequency signal

• US 9,478,227 B2
• Filed: 09/01/2014
• Issued: 10/25/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/17/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Oh, Eun-mi, Choo, Ki-hyun, Miao, Lei
• Primary Examiner(s): Chawan, Vijay B
• Application Number:
  US14/474,220
• Publication Number:
  US 20140372108A1
• Time in Patent Office: 785 Days
• Field of Search: 704/219, 704/210, 704/222, 704/230, 704/200.1, 704/206, 704/207, 704/208, 704/223, 704/225, 704/262, 704/500, 704/501, 704/502
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/02 using spectral analysis, e.g. transform vocoders or subband vocoders
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/0208 Subband vocoders
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/04 using predictive techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/06 Determination or coding of the spectral characteristics, e.g. of the short-term prediction coefficients
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/07 Line spectrum pair [LSP] vocoders
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 19/167 Audio streaming, i.e. formatting and decoding of an encoded audio signal representation into a data stream for transmission or storage purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 21/038 using band spreading techniques
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/12 the extracted parameters being prediction coefficients
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/21 the extracted parameters being power information
• CPC Class Codes: G10L 25/90 Pitch determination of speech signals

Abstract

Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding a high frequency signal by using a low frequency signal. The high frequency signal can be encoded by extracting a coefficient by linear predicting a high frequency signal, and encoding the coefficient, generating a signal by using the extracted coefficient and a low frequency signal, and encoding the high frequency signal by calculating a ratio between the high frequency signal and an energy value of the generated signal. Also, the high frequency signal can be decoded by decoding a coefficient, which is extracted by linear predicting a high frequency signal, and a low frequency signal, and generating a signal by using the decoded coefficient and the decoded low frequency signal, and adjusting the generated signal by decoding a ratio between the generated signal and an energy value of the high frequency signal.

Claims

1. An apparatus for encoding a high band signal, the apparatus comprising:

a processor configured;

to extract a coefficient from linear prediction of a high band signal, and to encode the extracted coefficient;

to generate a signal based on a low band signal and the extracted coefficient; and

to obtain a gain from an energy value of the high band signal and an energy value of the generated signal and to encode the gain; and

an output unit configured to transmit the encoded coefficient and the encoded gain to a decoder,

wherein the processor is configured to encode the extracted coefficient by performing an interpolation process on the extracted coefficient.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured:

to generate a first signal by using the extracted coefficient;

to generate a second signal in a high band by using the low band signal; and

to generate a third signal by calculating the first and second signals in a predetermined method.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured:

to generate a first signal by using the extracted coefficient;

to extract a residual signal by linear predicting the low band signal;

to generate a second signal in a high band by using the extracted residual signal; and

to generate a third signal by calculating the first and second signals by using a preset method.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the processor is configured:

to generate a fourth signal by using the extracted coefficient; and

to generate the first signal by normalizing the fourth signal.

5. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the processor is configured to generate the second signal and the third signal in a frequency domain.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured:

to extract a residual signal by linear predicting the low band signal;

to synthesize the extracted residual signal and the extracted coefficient; and

to generate the signal by calculating the synthesized residual signal and the high band signal by using a preset method.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the processor is configured to generate the signal in a frequency domain.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the processor is configured further to adjust each of the calculated ratios by using a ratio of tonality of the low band signal to tonality of the high band signal.

9. An apparatus for generating a high band signal, the apparatus comprising:

a receiving unit configured to receive a bitstream including an encoded coefficient and an encoded gain; and

a processor configured to;

to decode the encoded coefficient obtained from linear prediction of a high band signal, and an encoded low band signal from the bitstream, and to generate a signal based on the decoded coefficient and the decoded low band signal;

to decode the encoded gain corresponding to a ratio between an energy value the generated signal and an energy value of the high band signal from the bitstream; and

to adjust the generated signal using the decoded gain and the decoded coefficient, wherein the processor is configured to decode the encoded coefficient in consideration of an interpolation process.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured:

to generate a first signal by decoding the encoded coefficient;

to generate a second signal in a high band by using the decoded low band signal; and

to generate a third signal by calculating the first and second signals by using a preset method.

11. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to:

to generate a first signal by decoding the encoded coefficient;

to extract a residual signal by linear predicting the decoded low band signal;

to generate a second signal in a high band by using the extracted residual signal; and

to generate a third signal by calculating the first and second signals by using a preset method.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to:

to generate a fourth signal by using the decoded coefficient; and

to generate the first signal by normalizing the fourth signal.

13. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to generate the second signal and the third signal a frequency domain.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the processor is configured to:

to generate a fourth signal by using the decoded coefficient; and

to generate the first signal by normalizing the fourth signal.

15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to:

to decode the encoded coefficient and the encoded low band signal;

to extract a residual signal by linear predicting the decoded low band signal; and

to synthesize the extracted residual signal and the decoded coefficient.

16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the processor is configured to adjust the generated signal in a frequency domain.

17. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to further adjust the ratio so that the signal does not remarkably change in the boundary of the decoded low band signal and the high band signal that is to be decoded.

18. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processor is configured to:

to generate a first signal by decoding the encoded coefficient;

to extract a residual signal by decoding and linear predicting the encoded low band signal; and

to generate a second signal by calculating the first signal and the extracted residual signal by using a preset method.